Thursday, August 23, 2012

My Room

Why, you may ask, am I documenting my room? Well, first of all. I love my room. Second of all, tonight is possibly the last night that I will be sleeping in the room that’s been completely my own. Of course weekend visits and vacations will happen but I’ve seen the last of the days that it held all of my collections, books, and pictures. I’m thinking this was the last summer I will live at home. Not because I didn’t love it, quite the opposite actually. But there’s an exciting future ahead of me that involves, well, who knows what? With that said, “nothing in life is sure.”
Unfortunately, I can’t bring it all with me. So here’s the room I will be missing:
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My China display on top of my dresser
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My board of fake polaroids (polaroin.com) I used wrapping paper for the background
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My wall of high school dance pictures
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Snow globes and money from every country I’ve been to
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My built in shelf
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Hand-painted vanity
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Oddly painted chair that I got at an antique store. So rad.
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My completely full closet.
(My new closet is about the size of that built-in shelf in the middle. I
don’t know how it’s going to work.)
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I love chests. One is beautifully hand-painted and the other is over 100 years old. They both hold high school (and soon to be college) treasures
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The chair that I read, write, play guitar, and basically just  think and imagine in
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Wall of scarves
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And of course my amazingly comfortable bed with the labor-of-love quilt coverering.
(Pillows still being made)
As you can tell, there’s no color theme. Or really any theme at all. It would have been fun to paint though. Maybe if I come home for another summer, I will.
I’m sure most people don’t have such room-separation anxiety when they go to college but seriously I am going to miss my room so, so much.
And this is what it looks like now……
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Here we come. College. Round 2.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Wedding Reception

My friend Tina got married on Saturday!
I didn’t realize it until I started collecting pictures for this post but I share so many high school memories with this girl.
From orchestra….
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to dances…
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to parties…
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to student government….
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to madrigals….
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and sterling scholar…
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to graduation!
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and now she’s married!
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Congratulations Tina! You deserve to be so happy!

Friday, August 3, 2012

A Few Things That I Love:

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Music
Andrew’s Oregon Sweatshirt
Sunflowers
Green Jeans
Andrew’s Guitar
Summer

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Happy Birthday Harry!

I have nerdy friends.... OK fine I'm a nerd too. Yesterday was Harry Potter's birthday (obviously). We celebrated by drinking butter beer and trying to re-create the cake Hagrid made in the first movie. Oh, and we sang to him.... in British accents.


Roommates

You hear a lot of things about roommates before you go to college that could easily freak you out into getting your own room or living with a family member. I was lucky enough to have 2 (sometimes 5 including the apartment next door and 1 more including Forrest) really fantastic roommates my first year at the Y. 


So my roommate Christine..... yeah I never saw her. For as fantastic as she was (is), I'm quite sure that I saw my home teachers more at my apartment than I saw her. Okay, lie. I saw her maybe once a week. And that once a week: man, we made some good memories. Anyway, I needed to blog about this priceless roommate moment that my journal could not do justice. Venice and I decided one day to put a dummy in her room... in her bed... you know... since she was never there.



Look how real it looked! (Er... once it was in her bed)

 The view from her door.


When she came home (some 5-10 days after we did it), she walked to her room, opened the door, immediately shut it, came out and said, "who is in my bed?" 

We all thought it was pretty great. Love you Christine!